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Challenge: Yellow V (Advanced Editing VII*)
Camera: Canon EOS-450D Rebel XSi
Lens: Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II
Location: My Garden
Date: Aug 22, 2010
Aperture: F6.3
ISO: 200
Shutter: 1/1000
Galleries: Humorous, Water
Date Uploaded: Aug 23, 2010

 Set up:
In my garden with a black sheet behind me.
Sun over my left shoulder.
Camera on tripod with remote shutter cable.
Yellow liquid made with water, yellow jelly powder, yellow juice, and added flour and corn starch to make it thicker and less see through.

Water thrown at my with a cup and camera shutter released and flash firing as water hits me.

Post processing
RAW
Increased exposure, recovery and brightness. Adjust curves, and bump yellow saturation, decrease red.
Export to PS3
Clone out small spots, select water (increase saturation and add colour with blending mode), inverse selection and make background more black. Sharpen, resize and SFW.

Had fun doing this. My wife kept saying sorry after throwing the water at me.

Statistics
Place: 46 out of 206
Avg (all users): 5.6532
Avg (commenters): 6.5714
Avg (participants): 5.5172
Avg (non-participants): 5.7907
Views since voting: 878
Views during voting: 330
Votes: 173
Comments: 9
Favorites: 0

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 09/01/2010 02:33:41 AM
You are very creative in your ideas for challenges..even radical at times :) LOL at your wife. Can even see this happening in front of me. My kids would have had a ball doing this to me..no sorry's from them. It's just the rounding off that lacks a bit.
1) green cast on the fluid - small nit Some PS could maybe have corrected this?
2) Skin tone/lighting on you
3) placing of "water" on you. Something you dont have control over and luck plays a major part in this

These are my nits and Im being hyper critical. I could never have done this better even if I tried. In all honesty I would have been out of frame every time...ducking. You truly are a sucker..lol

Message edited by author 2010-09-01 02:34:38.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
08/30/2010 04:06:08 AM
Well done on being one of the more create pictures submitted, love the way the water is shaped. Very Interesting.
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 08/29/2010 12:54:22 PM
Somewhere near the top for this shot in my book.
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 08/28/2010 03:49:52 AM
Stunning execution
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 08/27/2010 11:54:23 AM
Hope you got this on the first take.
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 08/26/2010 03:37:03 PM
good action shot, yellow is rather greenish
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 08/26/2010 02:35:16 AM
Wow! I hope you got this with one take!
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 08/25/2010 07:21:20 PM
Seeing green, not yellow.
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 08/25/2010 10:12:07 AM
Loved the idea,
colors are beautiful but there is one thinf that catches my eye,
Effect of Flash on model.
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